Visualization of Multiple Robots during Team Activities

Abstract

As robotic systems encompass larger numbers of individual robotic agents, interface design must provide better visual representations that account for factors affecting the human operator's situational awareness. This work investigates three robotic team visualizations via an evaluation with sixteen participants who either had used robots or had no experience with robots. The team visualizations varied in how much information was displayed: only individual robots, individual robots connected via a semitransparent team shape, or a solid team shape. The evaluation results revealed that the two visualizations utilizing a team shape were used more frequently than the visualization displaying only individual robots.

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